Visual Website Collaboration, Feedback & Project Management – Atarim: A security weakness
Visual Website Collaboration, Feedback & Project Management – Atarim is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Visual Website Collaboration, Feedback & Project Management – Atarim
- Plugin slug
atarim-visual-collaboration- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Aug 12, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Aug 12, 2024 and is one of 18 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Visual Website Collaboration, Feedback & Project Management – Atarim to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Visual Website Collaboration, Feedback & Project Management – Atarim plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the process_wpfeedback_misc_options() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugins settings which can also be leveraged to gain access to the plugin's settings.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N